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Re: [PATCH v1] Fix errors generated when multiple IRC clients talk to a


From: David Edmondson
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] Fix errors generated when multiple IRC clients talk to a single IRC proxy.
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:58:50 +0100
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On Wed, Oct 15 2014, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> () David Edmondson <address@hidden>
> () Wed, 8 Oct 2014 15:03:17 +0100
>
>    +  (when erc-channel-new-member-names
>    +    (maphash (lambda (nick user)
>    +         (if (null (gethash nick erc-channel-new-member-names))
>    +             (erc-remove-channel-user nick)))
>    +       erc-channel-users)
>    +    (setq erc-channel-new-member-names nil)))
>
> I don't know if this is the case for Emacs Lisp, but i've been
> burned when (and am thus now leery of) doing a destructive
> operation on the hash table while hash walking, elsewhere
> (here, ‘erc-remove-channel-user’ boils down to ‘remhash’).
>
> Better to restructure as two passes: accumulation + destruction.
> That way, we cleanly avoid a bug, whether manifest or latent.

I understand your concern, however this is not that bug.



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